First Love Only? I Left Him First, Now the CEO Can't Let Go Chapter 326: I Want to Confirm Something

Serena’s fingertips felt like they’d been shocked, and she imdiately withdrew her hand.

"Alright, I’m done wiping."

Caleb’s deep eyes showed a hint of unfinished longing as he forced a bitter smile.

"You’ve fooled ."

"That’s why I told you to wipe it yourself!"

Serena tossed the tissue into the trash can and straightforwardly asked, "What other clues are there about the joker?"

Caleb’s bitter smile turned crafty in an instant.

"There’s no clue now. If there’s new information, I’ll let you know."

"You’re playing with !"

Serena was annoyed.

Yet Caleb shrugged nonchalantly.

"Just consider it like I was teasing you!"

"You..."

Serena was infuriated by Caleb and stord up the stairs.

Caleb followed behind, his charming eyes always watching Serena’s slender back.

Lana’s rented apartnt was also in an old complex without an elevator.

Serena climbed straight up to the seventh floor.

But Lana wasn’t ho.

"I should have called her first."

Serena ran her fingers through her hair, annoyed.

"I was going to remind you, but seeing you rush up the stairs, I thought a bit of exercise wouldn’t hurt."

Caleb’s sarcastic comnt made Serena even angrier.

She took out her phone to call Lana, but the call didn’t go through.

As they walked downstairs, Serena casually asked Caleb:

"By the way, why do you want to hear play the piano?"

Caleb was taken aback, his face slowly becoming serious.

Back in high school, he was overly confident.

He thought the piano music he heard was the sa as the one Chloe used to play, so the person must be Chloe.

Thus, he mistakenly recognized Claire Shaw and never investigated whether Claire Shaw had been sent to juvenile detention during middle school.

Rather than trusting Claire Shaw at the ti,

it was more accurate to say he trusted himself.

He never considered he might have misidentified soone.

So there was no need for investigation.

Now, he had Mr. Sanders investigate Serena’s connection to The Linton Family but found nothing.

This ti, he wanted to investigate but couldn’t find anything.

Caleb sighed.

"I want to confirm sothing..."

"What thing?"

Serena tilted her head, puzzled as she looked at Caleb, who hesitated to speak.

"You..."

Caleb started to speak but abruptly stopped.

Actually...

He had given up searching for Chloe.

Compared to Chloe, Serena was far more important to him.

Once, Caleb thought he would never fall in love with a woman other than Chloe.

But in the end, he wasn’t able to stick to that.

However...

If Serena really is Chloe...

Would that an he never truly moved on from the start?

Serena stared at Caleb, not understanding what Caleb was conflicted about.

As they were about to reach the first floor, Caleb’s question ca from behind:

"Serena, did you ever go into juvenile detention during middle..."

The last two words were drowned out by the phone’s ringtone.

The caller ID showed a strange number, a landline.

Serena hesitated slightly and answered the phone.

"Hello?"

"This is Seventh Hospital, are you a friend of Lana Xavier?"

...

When Serena and Caleb arrived at the hospital, Lana was getting an IV drip, still unconscious.

The doctor said Lana had fainted downstairs from her ho.

She hadn’t eaten properly for days, was severely sleep-deprived, and emotionally drained. Coupled with getting caught in the rain, Lana developed a cold and collapsed on the ground.

Serena’s neighbor discovered her and called 120 for an ambulance. The neighbor also inford the doctor that Lana was a friend of Serena.

The hospital couldn’t contact Lana’s family, so they found a way to reach Serena’s phone number and contacted her.

Serena sat by Lana’s hospital bed, looking at Lana’s pale face, feeling terrible.

Serena hadn’t responded to that "Can we still be friends?" ssage from Lana.

Lana’s collapse was partly her fault.

It was her delay in replying to Lana that led Lana to brave the rain to find her.

However, Serena repeatedly checked her phone, but there were no missed calls from Lana.

Serena couldn’t help but wonder if Lana purposely stood in the rain waiting for her after discovering she wasn’t ho.

Perhaps it was to punish herself.

Serena sighed.

In the end... she couldn’t bring herself to hate Lana.

No matter how wrong Lana was, she hadn’t deliberately hurt Serena like Caleb had.

"Lana..."

Serena held Lana’s hand.

Lana wasn’t seriously ill but was under great emotional stress, so she slept until nightfall.

Serena sat by Lana’s bedside the whole ti.

Caleb initially called the grand hotel to have them send over so food.

But just as the food arrived, Ethan ca.

"I bought dinner for Serena, so you might want to return what you ordered!"

Facing Caleb, Ethan made the hospital room tense imdiately.

Caleb, with a cold face, said to Ethan:

"The food I ordered was delivered first."

"So what?"

Ethan smiled slightly, his smile as graceful as ever.

But his gaze towards Caleb was sharp as a needle.

"Serena will definitely prefer what I bought."

"How can you be so sure?"

Seeing Caleb unwilling to concede, Ethan shrugged and laughed disdainfully.

"Because you don’t understand Serena at all."

This sentence added a layer of gray to Caleb’s already unhappy face.

"If you don’t believe ... why don’t you tell what dishes you ordered?"

"..."

Caleb hesitated slightly, looking at Serena.

Just at that mont, Serena also turned to look at him.

"Garlic lobster, charcoal-grilled beef tongue, black truffle foie gras, tuna salad, typhoon shelter fried bread crab..."

As Caleb recited the dishes like a nu, Serena’s mouth twitched.

They were all extravagant dishes, but really didn’t suit a hospital setting.

"Caleb... I appreciate the gesture, but I’d rather eat the dinner Ethan brought."

Serena spoke frankly, but saw Caleb frowning deeply, as if he didn’t understand sothing.

These dishes... were precisely from the nu package C Serena ordered before in Country C’s Peak.

Caleb rembered asking Serena to order the dishes she liked back then, and she chose this set.

So does Serena really like these dishes, or does she not?

"See, I didn’t lie to you, did I?"

Ethan’s smile carried a hint of victory.

"Since I’m here, you might as well leave!"

Caleb ignored Ethan and instead used his eyes to ask Serena.

Serena’s expression told him that staying here would only make Serena uncomfortable.

"Alright, then I’ll go."

As Caleb walked to the hospital room door with the food he had ticulously ordered from the grand hotel for Serena, he overheard Serena asking Ethan:

"What good food did you buy for ?"

"Of course, the two dishes you love most... spicy fried at and vinegar shredded potatoes."

Caleb suddenly stopped.